Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year. —Mother Goose
There are a number of web sites with leap year related resources. Here is my selection of sites, games and videos that could be useful in a primary setting.
Larry the Cucumber explains leap years - an amusing video about why we have a leap day every four years. Contains a few northern hemisphere things but generally OK for us Australians. Running time 2:12.
There are some good background facts and ideas on this leap year day page at Googol Power - why not practise skip counting by fours on Feb 29th, counting along with the Cat Man Math Blues? This page also has an Australian joke: What do you get when you multiply a kangaroo with a calendar? A: A leap year!
Scholastic has a Celebrate Leap Day page with a quiz and some rules to figure out when leap years occur.
Did you know that in a normal year, the first day and the last day fall on the same day of the week? In a leap year, Dec 31st is the day of the week after Jan 1st! (From http://www.leapyearday.com/content/kids-page)
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
—Mother Goose
There are a number of web sites with leap year related resources. Here is my selection of sites, games and videos that could be useful in a primary setting.
Did you know that in a normal year, the first day and the last day fall on the same day of the week? In a leap year, Dec 31st is the day of the week after Jan 1st! (From http://www.leapyearday.com/content/kids-page)
Summer Olympic Games are held on leap years.